So, looks like Romney has already been snookered. Too late for him. If Huckabee drops out and backs McCain, McCain benefits. If Huckabee stays in McCain also benefits. In either case, it’s unlikely that Huckabee’s pro-life Christian supporters are going to switch to Romney with his pro abortion background. But if Huckabee stays in and no candidate receives the prerequisite number of delegates to win the nomination, then what?
I think the brokered convention is a wishful-thinking longshot now that the field has narrowed so much. Besides, McCain would personally terrorize each and every delegate if he won the plurality and the subject came up, and he would know how to work the system for that.
I gauge Romney to genuinely not be pro-abortion. I think his liberal adversaries gleefully forced him onto the “third rail” knowing that his religion and the political climate of Massachusetts made it exceptionally awkward for him. Now those awkward moments against Kennedy in Massachusetts make good mud to throw back at him during the Republican primary. I think he’s truly our best hope.
More than that, I think I was too cynical about him before. His answers at the Reagan Library debate were all excellent.